Every person asks themselves the question: am I normal? And naturally, everyone still sees themselves as a normal person. Yes, it can be hard to keep track of yourself… But what if it is you who commits robberies at night, thinking that you are quietly asleep in your own bed?
Billy Milligan was the first person in U.S. history whom a court found not guilty of committed crimes because of, roughly speaking, insanity. As Daniel Keyes writes, as many as 24 personalities lived in Billy’s body—women, men, and even children…
In this case, the body of the “maniac” is home to a merry company, half of whom deserved a prison sentence, while the other half consisted of quite intelligent and honest people whose only fault was that they shared the same “lodging” with the former.